Malala Yousafzai, the pakistani teenage girl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, will make her first public speech on her 16th birthday in New York, the office of Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown announced on Friday.
She will speak at the United Nations on July 12, said Brown, speaking in his capacity as the UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
Malala was shot at point-blank range by a Taliban gunman as her school bus traveled through Pakistan's Swat Valley on October 9 last year, She was flown to Britain for surgery on her head injuries and, once she had recovered sufficiently, returned to school in Birmingham, central England last month.
And while I am very pleased that she has a better life now than before. I can not help but feel sad for many girls who are still oppressed by Taliban.
And ironically, the U.S has called her to speak at the U.N, a great privilege and honor, no doubt. I wonder if they thought about doing the same for the 700 children they killed with their drone strikes. You know. Malala got shot by Taliban, she received international fame...if she had fallen victim to an american drone strike, ah well she would have been stamped "collateral damage", buried in an unmarked grave and you and the world would have never known or cared.
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Malala to make UN speech in July
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the Thing on the ice got them tonight.
I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
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Re: Malala to make UN speech in July
A most bizarre post, neo-x.
You congratulate Malala on her upcoming speech to the UN and you - strangely - link it to drone strikes which kill innocent civilians in your country.
Malala's speech will certainly be championed by Western media; championed to serve our own back-patting & prideful selves. In the Muslim world, I'm sure her speech will largely go unnoticed in spite of the fact that the UN has a sizeable Muslim voting bloc.*
As for the ''drone'' strikes, They exist because you live in a country which de facto harbours terrorists and justifies this by demonizing the West.
Are either of the above ''good''?
As Christians, we are to be like our Lord Jesus. He didn't come to point a finger and say, ''AHA! you SCUM!'' Jesus came as a servant! Servants do not shake their fingers accusingly at the authories God has put in place.
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*of course, Al-Jazeera/English and its ''slave-boy'' CurrentTV will certainly give it lip-service to placate their naïve, neo-liberal audience.
You congratulate Malala on her upcoming speech to the UN and you - strangely - link it to drone strikes which kill innocent civilians in your country.
Malala's speech will certainly be championed by Western media; championed to serve our own back-patting & prideful selves. In the Muslim world, I'm sure her speech will largely go unnoticed in spite of the fact that the UN has a sizeable Muslim voting bloc.*
As for the ''drone'' strikes, They exist because you live in a country which de facto harbours terrorists and justifies this by demonizing the West.
Are either of the above ''good''?
As Christians, we are to be like our Lord Jesus. He didn't come to point a finger and say, ''AHA! you SCUM!'' Jesus came as a servant! Servants do not shake their fingers accusingly at the authories God has put in place.
FL
*of course, Al-Jazeera/English and its ''slave-boy'' CurrentTV will certainly give it lip-service to placate their naïve, neo-liberal audience.
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Re: Malala to make UN speech in July
Oh, she survived. 
I can now add some more lines in my poem on her.
And maybe I will write poem on other children as well.
Neo, check the song here: http://discussions.godandscience.org/vi ... =2&t=38405
It is to the topic.
I can now add some more lines in my poem on her.And maybe I will write poem on other children as well.
Neo, check the song here: http://discussions.godandscience.org/vi ... =2&t=38405
It is to the topic.
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
-- 1 Thessalonians 5:21
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
-- Philippians 1:6
#foreverinmyheart
-- 1 Thessalonians 5:21
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
-- Philippians 1:6
#foreverinmyheart
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Re: Malala to make UN speech in July
So, Malala received the Nobel prize today. Good for her.
I was listening to an interview with the editor of the Pakistan Observer today on NPR* and he opined that Malala was nothing more than a Western pawn. Bizarre.
FL
*National Public Radio, an American broadcaster
I was listening to an interview with the editor of the Pakistan Observer today on NPR* and he opined that Malala was nothing more than a Western pawn. Bizarre.
FL
*National Public Radio, an American broadcaster
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Re: Malala to make UN speech in July
She is a remarkable young women, she deserved it!
She starting speaking out at the age of 11 for her rights to an education. The Taliban boarded that bus, specifically asked for her then shot her in the head. To silence her. By her courage and conviction they did not succeed.
She stood up for what was right.
One voice can make a difference!
She starting speaking out at the age of 11 for her rights to an education. The Taliban boarded that bus, specifically asked for her then shot her in the head. To silence her. By her courage and conviction they did not succeed.
She stood up for what was right.
One voice can make a difference!